5 Affirmations for An Empowered Holiday

Affirmations, or positive statements repeated over and over, can help create new patterns of thinking.

Just like negative statements repeated over a lifetime have the power to implant feelings of low self-esteem, repeating positive words to ourselves (and to others) can have an uplifting, empowering effect.

As we enter the holiday week, we sometimes observe old patterns of thinking emerge. Here’s five affirmations that will empower you to reveal the most loving, honest, compassionate, authentic version of you possible to the people you love most, including yourself.

I WILL BE BRAVE. Repeat this affirmation to encourage yourself to be brave enough to let your guard down, open your heart, and let your light shine.

I WILL LOOK FOR THE GOOD. In the words of Victor Frankl, “Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedom — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”